Riot Grrrl Listening Party: There’s a Dyke in the Pit

Women in Rock’s first magazine comes out August 16, 2016 and to celebrate there is a show in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Woodward Theater with Alice Bag, Leggy and Birdie Hearse. Here’s a teaser for you… below is an article from the upcoming release.

Compiled by: Women in Rock

On May 8, 2016, Roxie, Francis, Theresa and I gathered at my apartment to listen to the OutPunk compilation, There’s a Dyke in the Pit, released in 1992. What follows are segments of our conversation about the compilation. It is to be noted the my cats, Lux and Bowie, both thoroughly enjoyed the comp and hung out for the entire listening party.

This is the one of the first riot grrrl compilations ever released. We listened, thinking about what made this music feminist and queer, particularly “queer as meaning anything in a range of non-normative identities”(Theresa).

Reflecting on the riot grrrl era Francis commented on how upset riot grrrl music made punks when it arrived. “People would go to Bikini Kill shows just to yell at them” he said.

“The counterculture is not as counter-cultural as it thinks because it’s still full of misogyny, homophobia and the need to dominate. I’m struck how relevant this still is and how radical it still is” (Theresa).